| INDIANA NATALITY REPORT - FINAL DATA |
| Table 14 - INDIANA RESIDENTS |
| Low Birth Weight (Under 2500 Grams) Infants by Race and Age of Mother: |
| Indiana, 2002 |
| Births | Low Birth Weight Infants | Percent Low Birth Weight Infants | |||||||
| Age of Mother | All Races | White | Black | All Races | White | Black | All Races | White | Black |
| 10-14 | 131 | 72 | 58 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 10.7 | 12.5 | 8.6 |
| 15-17 | 2,931 | 2,240 | 655 | 303 | 204 | 98 | 10.3 | 9.1 | 15.0 |
| 18-19 | 6,639 | 5,461 | 1,129 | 596 | 442 | 148 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 13.1 |
| 20-24 | 24,731 | 21,039 | 3,430 | 1,913 | 1,487 | 406 | 7.7 | 7.1 | 11.8 |
| 25-29 | 24,101 | 21,456 | 2,133 | 1,664 | 1,332 | 280 | 6.9 | 6.2 | 13.1 |
| 30-34 | 17,615 | 15,954 | 1,190 | 1,224 | 1,030 | 161 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 13.5 |
| 35-39 | 7,240 | 6,534 | 514 | 586 | 498 | 78 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 15.2 |
| 40-44 | 1,397 | 1,216 | 124 | 137 | 116 | 17 | 9.8 | 9.5 | 13.7 |
| 45+ | 46 | 35 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 17.4 | 14.3 | 30.0 |
| Unknown | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - |
| Total | 84,839 | 74,013 | 9,243 | 6,445 | 5,123 | 1,196 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 12.9 |
| SOURCE: Indiana State Department of Health, Epidemiology Resource Center, Data Analysis Team, March 3, 2004. |
| The 2002 information is based on Final data. See Preface. |
| Percentages are calculated using total births in each age group or age group/race category. Please see Table 39 for the number and percentage of missing Birth Weights. |
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| This table was run on March 4, 2004. |